Ukrainian Red Borshch (beetroot soup)
Ukrainian Red Borshch (beetroot soup)

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Borscht (aka Borsch) is a sour soup with beetroots as one of the main ingredients, which gives the dish a vibrant red color. Borscht is popular in cuisines of some Eastern European, such as Ukrainian, Russian, Belorussian, Romanian, Polish and Lithuanian. Borscht is the most important soup in Ukrainian culture, known around the whole world.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook ukrainian red borshch (beetroot soup) using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Ukrainian Red Borshch (beetroot soup):
  1. Get 1 average red beetroot
  2. Make ready 1 small carrot
  3. Make ready 1 average onion
  4. Take 3 average potatoes
  5. Take 150 grams cabbage
  6. Get 50 grams sweet pepper
  7. Make ready 1 tbsp tomato paste
  8. Get 1 tbsp salt
  9. Take 1 pinch black pepper
  10. Make ready 1 pinch marjoram
  11. Take 1 pinch nutmeg
  12. Get 1 bay leaf
  13. Take 4 tbsp oil
  14. Take 400 grams red beens

Ukrainian beetroot broth (borshch). (Kris Kirkham). This is a distinctively Ukrainian soffritto technique called smazhennya or zazharka. Ukrainian meatless beet soup or borshch has a little tomato paste in it along with mushrooms, potatoes, cabbage, onions, and other vegetables. This meatless version of Ukrainian beet soup is served on fast days and for Christmas Eve when it is part of the traditional sviat vechir or svyat vechir.

Instructions to make Ukrainian Red Borshch (beetroot soup):
  1. Ingredients: I took canned red beens, but you make take any you like. Not in sause, just canned beens. You may cook them by yourself if you wish and have time of course))) I also took tomato sauce, but you may take a red tomato if you want) From these products, I took half of this cabbage and half of carrot and half of pepper)
  2. Borshch hack: To make our borshch even more red, sweet, and vitaminized, do the following: Wash the beetroot well with brush, cut top and bottom and throw away, than peel it in a separate bowl. Boil some water, put salt in bowl with beetroot peels and pour hot water. Put aside.
  3. Put a 3-4 litres pan with 2 litres of water to warm up. Peel all vegs, cut potatoes in small cubes and throw in the pan.
  4. Prick onion with knife to let the soup take its juices easily.
  5. Add the onion to the pan, close it and let it simmer.
  6. Put a frying pan to heat. Meanwhile, cut beetroot and carrot, I use food processor you may cut them with knife, in long slim pieces like mine.
  7. Pour some oil on frying pan, and fry beetroot and carrot for 3-4 minutes covered. Cut the cabbage meanwhile.
  8. Put fried carrot and beetroot into the pan. Add some oil into the same frying pan, and stew cabbage with some water added for 3-4 minutes. Add 1 tbsp into the cabbage, mix well, put into the pan. Also, add thinly sliced sweet pepper.
  9. Add red beans into the pan.
  10. Add salt, black ground pepper, one bay leaf, majoram, nutmeg. Stir a little.
  11. Add those red liquid from beetroot peels that we made in the step 2. (Oly liquid, not peels!) Almost close the pan and let it simmer for 15-20 minutes. Dont boil it, cause it will loose its clearness!
  12. Serve hot with toats+garlic (my next recipe!), tbsp of sour cream, and chopped parsley. The dish is good for re-heeting, it becomes even more tasty overnight in the frige )))))

Traditional Ukrainian borsch typically does not have a deep purple color, the color of beetroot soup or 'svekolnik' as they call it. Borsch is usually associated with traditional Ukrainian cuisine, though other Slavic countries have long had this dish in their menus. My friend's mother from the Ukraine taught me this recipe for the classic beetroot soup. It's as authentic as it gets. It can be served vegetarian style by omitting the sausage.

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